Join us as a postdoctoral researcher! "Invisible Knowledge Work in Open Science Practices", funded by OSNL #STS #metascience Come help us map and understand the invisible labour that enables, allows, supports and shapes #openscience, and lets it grow. Mostly #qual work, with small #quant pockets.

🚨🚨postdoc alert🚨🚨 come work w/ @penders.bsky.social & our colleagues on the Invisible Knowledge Work and the Transformation and Scaling of Open Science Practices project funded by Open Science NL: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3617...

The deadline has been extended to 30 September 2026 for our special issue! 🫧Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

every weekend that K & I spend tinkering w/ some bit of our garden leaves me w/ both a sense of accomplishment & the dread certainty that the "after" picture 👇 is what the next owner of our house is going to do w/ it.

re-upping in recognition of the day

surely Norah Jones should be one of the options, no?

Texas history can't ignore freethinking Germans who opposed slavery | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

it's a nice book! go read it www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

I had a fascinating chat with @erikisberg.bsky.social about his research into the history of geophysics, which in the interwar years coalesced around a curious mix of internationalism, colonialism, and petroleum!

@patrickmccray.bsky.social (also @jonagar.bsky.social - any other authors on here?) have you seen Max Stadler's review of Greedy Science in Centaurus? Wonderful to see a reviewer taking the job so seriously! More like this please. doi.org/10.1484/J.CN...

the issue of Nuncius in which @michielbron.bsky.social & I write ab/ oil firms, scientific instruments & the Manhattan Project is now out. what a line-up! don't miss (oa) Deborah J. Warner, Simon Werrett, Klaus Hentschel, Liba Taub, David Pantalony, @nescioquid.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal...

Did you guys know that back in the 70s, everyone from aerospace companies to potato brands were trying to figure out how to make energy? I loved talking with historians @ccmmody.bsky.social and Dante LaRiccia about this period of elevated oil prices.

great piece on alternative energy & the 1970s oil crises by @hughesstephanie.bsky.social in today's @marketplace.org Tech. thx to Stephanie for the opportunity to share insights from work w/ @odinnmelsted.bsky.social @michielbron.bsky.social & Jelena Stankovic: www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

I'm rather fond of the Mody family motto, "dum spiro spero" (while I breathe I hope) but TIL that it's also the motto of the White Rajahs of Sarawak and the state of South Carolina?! might be time to look for a better one. any suggestions?

We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk are putting on a special issue in Studies in History & Philosophy of Science! Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social New deadline September 30, 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

h/t Max Bouttell for apprising me of Shell's (never-realized) plans, apparently hatched in the late '60s, to build an enormous airship to shuttle natural gas between the Middle East and the UK. kudos for the Hindenburg comparison, guys! more info here: airshipsonline.com/airships/air...

congrats to @mariellew.bsky.social @hdijkstra.bsky.social & all the other colleagues (oa @danishanley.bsky.social @posteurope.bsky.social Mario Daniels, Miles MacLeod & Guus Dix) involved in this upcoming consortium project on knowledge security: 1/x www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/maastri...

Congratulations to a team from @maastrichtu.bsky.social for receiving €250,000 from @opensciencenl.bsky.social for “Invisible knowledge work & scaling Open Science practices,” led by Bart Penders. Team includes @ccmmody.bsky.social, Ewout Meijer, @marielleprevoo.bsky.social & Yannis Stavrakakis.

giving an online talk for the Peking University Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine on Thursday (May 21) from 8:10 to 10:00 GMT (15:10-17:00 PRC time, 9:10-11:00 NL). DM me for the Zoom deets if you want to watch.

MUSTS colloquium 'Mobilizing for #sustainable #agriculture? Coalition-building cycles among #environmental and #rural movements in #Denmark, 1960s-today' by Anders Blok. 📅3 June, 15:30-17:00 📍GG80-82, 3.002 @ccmmody.bsky.social sky.social @matthewarcher.bsky.social

debate me, cowards!

the problem of induction looking pretty and giving stink-eye

so gas is free in Delaware and Oklahoma? can you confirm, @bordergroves.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🫧 Nanobubbles are present at WCRI in Vancouver this week! 🎙️Guillaume Cabanac, Alexandre Clausse and Yagmur Ozturk have several upcoming presentations. Let’s take a look! ⬇️

Today, May 4, Jules Di Scala is presenting his work with Guillaume at 4pm in the session themed “Breaches of research integrity” @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

The Real Ambassadors

*Globalizing Wildlife* is OUT THIS MONTH (!) with @uncpress.bsky.social “An essential and timely intervention… exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories” -Daniel Vandersommers Edited by @rafdebont.bsky.social myself, & Tom Quick #animalhist #globalhist #HistSci #envhist

At the next MUSTS colloquium, Jess Bier & Claudia Egher reflect on insights from @sallywyatt.bsky.social's work, paired with a short, engaging co-creative activity on a familiar yet challenging theme. 📆6 May 2026, 15:30 - 17:00 📍Grote Gracht 80-82, room 3.002

That's right - let's put a halt to this quarrelsome scribbler's heresies!

The Paris Climate Accords were signed on April 22—#EarthDay—10 years ago today. @jessimckenzi.bsky.social interviews historian @marchudson.bsky.social, who publishes various pieces of climate ephemera on his blog, @allouryesterdays.bsky.social, about what he's learned archiving climate history.

🎆 STS NL Conference in Twente was full of Nanobubbles! 📣 We presented our work in the "Making Science Better?" track throughout the conference, organized by Bart Penders, Willem Halffman, Serge Horbach, Yj Erden and Yagmur Ozturk. Here is a glimpse of our presented studies:

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lots of interesting PhD positions popping up lately: visu.research.vub.be/vacancy-2-ph...?

Open PhD position in the History of Science & Technology and/or Environmental History at the University of St Gallen, with the wonderful Dania Achermann! 📣 3+2 years. Application deadline 30 April. jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stell...

📣Join us for the 3rd History of Knowledge Conference, "Decentering the History of Knowledge"! The event will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027. 📝A call for papers will follow in Fall 2026. For more information: 1) Register with "[email protected]" 2) Visit: www.uu.nl/en/news/thir....

new publication by @michielbron.bsky.social & me (mostly Michiel, tho) in Nuncius: "Scientific Instruments and/as Oil Spillovers: The Role of the Oil Industry in Developing Nuclear Instruments for the Manhattan Project." 1/x doi.org/10.1163/1825...

oh, so the saying goes "billions for defense *and* millions for tribute." we've been getting it wrong for a couple centuries, huh.

Together with Edoardo Celeste, I co-edit the Routledge Series in Digital Law and Governance. Do you have an idea for a monograph or edited volume that pushes the boundaries of the field? Get in touch! We welcome proposals from, e.g., political science, law, sociology, STS and communication studies.

hey @randomjetship.bsky.social - were you aware that after he retired from the National Bureau of Standards, Allen Astin was either living or had an office at 5008 *Battery* Lane in Bethesda? seems a bit on the nose. anyway, here's diplomat George McGhee writing Astin ab/ a HUD panel they were on.

they call it two-factor authorization, but for some tasks I have to input EIGHT factors: password, PIN, 2FA, PIN, password, PIN, 2FA, PIN. four times as safe, no doubt.

this is ... not so reassuring well, if you're in Maastricht enjoy the beautiful day while you can. if not, then enjoy this picture of some fairly typical Dutch backyards in spring.

new article out led by ethicisit Ineke Malsch but w/ contributions by @egonw.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy, my @nanobubbles.bsky.social colleague/PhD Candida Sanchez Burmester & myself gauging gap b/t nanoscientists' & ethicists views on sharing data: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-2...

the existence of Maundy Thursday implies the existence of Thaersdy Monday

last night I time-traveled to the 1990s when I was lying in bed with my eyes shut, so why is everyone so skeptical that this guy can teleport? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...?

NB @kansananthropocene.bsky.social

energy historian & STS scholar Tsaiying Lu (whose PhD @vincentlagendijk.bsky.social & I co-supervised @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social) on the Dutch national news last night, talking about Taiwan's energy politics (article starts at ~7:00 in the video): npo.nl/start/afspel...

my @nanobubbles.bsky.social colleague @yjerden.bsky.social will talk ab/ AI art, (non)creativity, and legal protections for creative work at the MUSTS colloquium tomorrow

Excited and happy to report that we (@ccmmody.bsky.social, Ewout Meijer, Marielle Prevoo, Yannis Stravrakakis, Penelope Bollini, and I) will be able to start the new project "Invisible knowledge work and the transformation and scaling of open science practices". This is a unique project --> 1/2

I once gave my mother (a high school teacher, specializing in US lit) a card that said "Henry David Thoreau" on the front, with a picture of Thoreau playing baseball by his cabin & "Henry David Catch" on the inside. So this one's for her: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/b...